Five million dollars provided for addiction beds in Red Deer
Posted Jul 19, 2020 12:53 pm.
EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says the province will provide up to five-million dollars to build a 75-bed addictions recovery community in Red Deer.
It follows news last week that Alberta would spend 25-million to build five new recovery and treatment facilities across the province.
On Thursday the Alberta government ended its funding agreement with a supervised drug consumption site in Lethbridge after an audit showed financial irregularities.
Kenney says while abstinence from drugs is “obviously essential,” he says the recovery community experience is “about confronting the realities of life, learning how to cope with them, and becoming a strong, fully functioning person.”
